Dr Natalie Karavarsamis

@nataliekarav n.karavarsamis@latrobe.edu.au nkarav@unimelb.edu.au

Lecturer, Researcher
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Honorary Fellow
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia

Technical sub-editor at the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics and reviewer to several journals.

Details in my CV.


Announcements


Events

2019


Talks


Bio

I am Lecturer in Statistics at La Trobe University. I obtained my PhD in Statistics from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne. In addition, I have professional statistician and industry consulting experience at several institutions, including, Cancer Council of Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, School of Medicine (University of Crete, Greece). Academic posts include Lecturer at School of Mathematics and Statistics (University of Melbourne), Postdoctoral Research Fellow with School of Biosciences (University of Melbourne) and with School of Mathematical Sciences (RMIT), and Research Fellow at Department of Food and Land Sciences (prior to PhD) (University of Melbourne). Current roles include Technical Sub-Editor to the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, and serve as reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals.

Research collaborations include Harvard University (USA), University of Caen (France), La Trobe University (Australia) and University of Melbourne (Australia). Research interests include ecological statistics, analysis and modelling of large biological data and medical statistics. Modern statistical approaches for occupancy using partial, conditional and composite likelihoods, and with GAMs. R software is available for selected methods. Analysis and development of models for large time-series biological data, functional analysis, HMMs and models for cylindrical distributions. With applications in neuroscience in collaboration with Harvard University.


Supervision

Available for Honours, Masters and PhD.
* PhD Statistics - Co-supervisor (2018–)
* AMSI Summer Scholars - Supervisor, two scholars (2019)


Grants & Awards (selected)

2016– Early Researcher Establishment Grant, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne.

2018 Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation (AFRAN).


Press & Gallery

2018 AMSI Choose Maths Day, La Trobe